Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

W. M. Scott, State entomologist, reports that the commercial fruit crop of Georgia was entirely destroyed by the recent cold wave. Gov. Bradley of Kentucky has decided to fix May 3 and 4 as the dates for the dedication of the Kentucky State monuments at Chickamauga Park. Seven prisoners escaped from the jail at Tyler, Texas. Among the fugitives is Jim Nite, the surviving member of the Dalton gang, which robbed the Longview Bank in 1894, when two citizens and one robber were killed. The postoffloe at Pickens, Miss., which went out of existence as the result of the violent opposition of the citizens to the appointment of a colored potsmaster, has been re-established, and J. G. Webb, a white man, appointed postmaster. Texas is passing through an epidemic of meningitis. The death record in Fort Worth is thirty for the week. Reports from the country towns give a similar situation. Many schools have been closed on account of the ravages of this disease. The recent severe weather did great injury to one of the most profitable industries in Kentucky. Reports show that millions of bees were killed and that honeymaking has practically been exterminated in the State for several years at least. Senator Kimball has introduced a bill ip the Arkansas Senate for the erection of a new State copitol building. The bill provides that the cost of the new statehouse shall not exceed $1,000,000 and that State convicts may be employed in the performance of rough labor. J. W. Ingleby, an engineer on the Illinois Central Railroad, shot nnd fatally wounded J. R. Hayes, proprietor of the Hayes House, Hodgensville, Ky., and seriously wounded Robert Crcal, a drummer, in a saloon, and without provocation. Ingleby was under the influence of liquor. Two Chinamen were found dead at El Paso, Texas, in different parts of the city. Undoubtedly they died at the hands 6f a highbinder from San Francisco. Both were known to have been in perfect health the day before. No marks of violence were found on either of the bodies. President J. W. Springer of the National Live Stock Association, after a personal investigation of the condition of cattle in Texas, places the loss from the blizzards at 10 per cent. This is the most serious loss, he points out, since 188 G, when over 90 per cent of the range cattle perished.